So I've been an associate dentist since I graduated. Time has come to think
about buying my own practice. I'm torn between the city and small town.

Advantages to the city are: I am more anonymous (I can have a nice car/house
and noone cares), all the perks to city-life (movie theaters with stadium
seating, nice restaurants, etc.), etc.

Disadvantages to the city are: Lower income as a dentist (higher competition
than rural and more specialists to do high-end work), raising of kids in
gang/drug/etc-infested schools (don't get me wrong small towns have their
share of alcohol and drugs).

Advantages to small town: Increased salary as a dentist, "peaceful" life,
snowmobiling/atvs/fishing/etc., etc.

Disadvantages to small town: Apart from grocery or hardware shopping trips
to city are required, less anonymous (I can have a nice truck but don't be
pulling up to work in a Benz...)

Basically this is an informal poll of where you would go in my situation and
why. I'd be interested to hear any and all responses/advice.

Thanks.

"JWN DDS" <> wrote in message
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> So I've been an associate dentist since I graduated. Time has come to

think

> about buying my own practice. I'm torn between the city and small town.
>

Really, you only had to ask once.

I forget. Without specifics, where do you practice now - and with what
arrangement (solo, employee, etc.,)?

carabelli

"JWN DDS" <> wrote in message
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> So I've been an associate dentist since I graduated. Time has come to

think

> about buying my own practice. I'm torn between the city and small town.
>
> Advantages to the city are: I am more anonymous (I can have a nice

car/house

> and noone cares), all the perks to city-life (movie theaters with stadium
> seating, nice restaurants, etc.), etc.
>
> Disadvantages to the city are: Lower income as a dentist (higher

competition

> than rural and more specialists to do high-end work), raising of kids in
> gang/drug/etc-infested schools (don't get me wrong small towns have their
> share of alcohol and drugs).
>
> Advantages to small town: Increased salary as a dentist, "peaceful" life,
> snowmobiling/atvs/fishing/etc., etc.
>
> Disadvantages to small town: Apart from grocery or hardware shopping trips
> to city are required, less anonymous (I can have a nice truck but don't be
> pulling up to work in a Benz.

Hmm if you listen to the guys on here you would think they were on their way
to the poorhouse lol

>
> Basically this is an informal poll of where you would go in my situation

and

> why. I'd be interested to hear any and all responses/advice.

The suburbs.

>
> Thanks.
>
>

Have you considered a mid sized town? You can get the best of both worlds.
If you pick one fourty-five minutes to an hour and a half from the big city
your patients and family have access to the specialists and facilities when
needed. Chorally you are that much closer to cottage country as well.

How often do you really need the big city facilities? Most people I know
only hit the live theatre or stadium events once a month or so. A nice
diversion for a short get away ( or actually a get into it).

I think if one looks at a variety of locations they can have the best of
both worlds. I would not worry about having a money box in your driveway.
With a large chunk of the population leasing, no one really knows if you own
it or not. If I look at my neighbourhood, in the big city, there is only a
mile or so between the pockets of million dollar homes and the pockets of
subsidized housing. The middle class home owners in between seem to be
driving the older, non status vehicles.

If you pick the small town life. Look for one that has a diversified
industry. I've lived in some during my younger years. When the major
employer shut down for whatever reason, you would swear they rolled up the
sidewalks and locked the doors to the bank. Never understood that because
the workers got 95% of their wages for staying at home.

One thing I noticed about staying in a big city is that there is no longer
any benefit to be close to what you might need. Many suppliers have switched
their in house deliveries to courier services. I now get the same overnight
service as my peers 4 hours away.

Good discussion topic. IIRC you are in SW ON somewhere?

--
Roy
DotSeaEh is .ca


"JWN DDS" <> wrote in message
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| So I've been an associate dentist since I graduated. Time has come to
think
| about buying my own practice. I'm torn between the city and small town.
|
| Advantages to the city are: I am more anonymous (I can have a nice
car/house
| and noone cares), all the perks to city-life (movie theaters with stadium
| seating, nice restaurants, etc.), etc.
|
| Disadvantages to the city are: Lower income as a dentist (higher
competition
| than rural and more specialists to do high-end work), raising of kids in
| gang/drug/etc-infested schools (don't get me wrong small towns have their
| share of alcohol and drugs).
|
| Advantages to small town: Increased salary as a dentist, "peaceful" life,
| snowmobiling/atvs/fishing/etc., etc.
|
| Disadvantages to small town: Apart from grocery or hardware shopping trips
| to city are required, less anonymous (I can have a nice truck but don't be
| pulling up to work in a Benz...)
|
| Basically this is an informal poll of where you would go in my situation
and
| why. I'd be interested to hear any and all responses/advice.
|
| Thanks.
|
|

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 04:54:55 GMT, "Shyster" <>
wrote:

>Hmm if you listen to the guys on here you would think they were on their way
>to the poorhouse lol

I do not believe they have that anymore ......

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:27:16 -0400, "Roy Brown"
<> wrote:

>Have you considered a mid sized town?

Or a tiny city?

>You can get the best of both worlds.
>If you pick one fourty-five minutes to an hour and a half from the big city
>your patients and family have access to the specialists and facilities when
>needed. Chorally you are that much closer to cottage country as well.
>

On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:03:37 -0400, Joel M. Eichen
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 02:27:16 -0400, "Roy Brown"
><> wrote:
>

>
>Or a tiny city?

Not to be confused with Tiny Town ....... the movie .......

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Terror of Tiny Town, The (1938)
Directed by
Sam Newfield

Writing credits
Fred Myton
Clarence Marks (additional dialogue)



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Genre: Western (more)

Plot Summary: An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good
little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him,
and zany antics ensue (more)

User Comments: Ah, midgets... (more)

User Rating: 3.1/10 (167 votes)

Complete credited cast:
Billy Curtis .... The Hero (Buck Lawson)
Yvonne Moray .... The Girl (Nancy Preston)
'Little Billy' Rhodes .... The Villain (Bat Haines) (as Little Billy)
Billy Platt .... The Rich Uncle (Jim 'Tex' Preston) (as Bill Platt)
John T. Bambury .... The Ranch Owner (Pop Lawson) (as John Bambury)
Joseph Herbst .... The Sheriff
Charles Becker .... The Cook (Otto)
Nita Krebs .... The Vampire (Nita, the dance hall girl)
George Ministeri .... The Blacksmith (Armstrong)
Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky .... The Barber (Sammy) (as Karl Casitzky)
Fern Formica .... Diamond Dolly (as Johnnie Fern)
William H. O'Docharty .... The Old Soak (as W.H. O'Docharty)
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Runtime: 62 min
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Black and White
Sound Mix: Mono

Trivia: Following this film's release, it was reported that Jed Buell
planned to use the same cast in a film version of the story of Paul
Bunyan (with a large gentleman playing Bunyan). It is assumed this
idea never got past the pre-production phase. (more)
TERROR OF TINY...




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Heather
Vancouver, Canada


Date: 7 August 2003
Summary: Ah, midgets...

Ok, so when I voted I gave it a low score, but that was cause Terror
of Tiny Town has very little cinematic merit. But put all that aside
and wind your sense of humour down a couple of notches and this movie
is a "rootin, tootin, shootin" good time. I mean come on! They walk
UNDER the saloon door! They ride ponies! It takes two midgets to play
the bass! The bartender can't seem to chug his beer without outbursts
of laughter! Plus- midgets fighting- funny! Add to that the fact that
not a single one of the midgets can act and you've got 63 minutes of
fun! Ok, so I realize that this movie is so politically incorrect that
"little people" everywhere are either laughing themselves to death or
up in arms. But that shouldn't stop us from enjoying an entirely
midget western with multiple ear shattering musical numbers and the
barest traces of a plot. But like I said before- midgets-Funny!
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BECAUSE there have been so many questions about Tiny Town, I have
included the review ......

" ....The cattle of both the Preston and Lawson ranches are
mysteriously disappearing, and each blames the other for the
rustling."

Okay, I guess its NOT a good place to practice dentistry.

[quote] Of the hundreds of low budget, B-movie westerns that were made
in the first half of the twentieth century, The Terror of Tiny Town
must be one of the weirdest, at least in concept.



JOEL




*************************


Terror of Tiny Town, The
Year: 1938
Director: Sam Newfield
Stars: Billy Curtis, Yvonne Moray, Little Billy, Billy Platt, John
Bambury, Joseph Herbst, Charles Becker, Nita Krebs
Genre: Musical, Comedy, Western, Weirdo
Rating: 3 (from 1 vote)
Review: The cattle of both the Preston and Lawson ranches are
mysteriously disappearing, and each blames the other for the rustling.
Buck Lawson (Billy Curtis), son of the head of the Lawson family, is
out riding on the ranch one day when he spots smoke coming from behind
some trees; investigating, he discovers a recently put out fire, and a
branding iron of the Preston ranch. Little does he know that the iron
has been placed there by Bat Haines (Little Billy), who is whipping up
conflict between the two families so that he can move in and take all
of their cattle. Will Buck save the day?

Of the hundreds of low budget, B-movie westerns that were made in the
first half of the twentieth century, The Terror of Tiny Town must be
one of the weirdest, at least in concept. Made as a showcase for
producer Jed Buell's troupe of midgets, it was written by Fred Myton,
and opens with a normal-size man at the microphone introducing the
film as a "novelty picture". Then Billy Curtis and Little Billy
saunter on, only to start a fight, and presumably to let us see how
short they are compared to the compere.

Depsite the main selling point being the small stature of its cast,
the script makes surprisingly little of it, so to speak. If filmed
with people of ordinary height, it would be indistinguishable from the
greater percentage of the other westerns made about this time. There's
feuding, romance, a bar room with gambling and a resident music hall
act, the baddie in a black hat and the goodie in a white hat,
gunfights, and Curtis is made up as a miniature singing cowboy
(although he's obviously dubbed).

Some indications of the cast's height do appear. The sets are normal
sized, just maybe not so much that you'd notice, except for the
swinging saloon doors that the cowboys walk under, and the midgets
ride Shetland ponies. Once in a while there will be a size-ist joke,
such as the band's double bass needing two people to play it, or the
thirsty barman drinking beer out of a huge glass. Uninspiring comedy
scenes include the chef, Otto (Charles Becker), chasing a duck around,
or a singalong that includes a penguin for no apparent reason, but
mostly this is played straight, unless you find the idea of short
people inherently funny.

What novelty there is wears off pretty swiftly. Buck and Preston's
hungry niece Nancy (Yvonne Moray) fall in love, which threatens to
bring the two clans together, but Haines puts a stop to that with a
cold-blooded murder. This might have been fairly exciting in other
hands, but the little people are terrible actors, and the whole
production looks amatuerish in the extreme. You leave it wondering why
they bothered to cast midgets at all, you couldn't even say they were
being exploited, it's just another run of the mill western with the
cast all looking pretty much the same size. Maybe pitting the little
guys against tall villains would have been a better idea?
Reviewer: Graeme Clark

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On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 06:15:19 -0400, Joel M. Eichen
<> wrote:

>On Tue, 21 Sep 2004 05:03:37 -0400, Joel M. Eichen
><> wrote:
>

>
>Not to be confused with Tiny Town ....... the movie .......
>
>**********************************
>
>Terror of Tiny Town, The (1938)
> Directed by
>Sam Newfield
>
>Writing credits
>Fred Myton
>Clarence Marks (additional dialogue)
>
>
>
> Add to MyMovies IMDbPro Professional Details
>
>
>Genre: Western (more)
>
>Plot Summary: An evil gunslinging midget comes to terrorize the good
>little people of Tiny Town. The townspeople organize to defeat him,
>and zany antics ensue (more)
>
>User Comments: Ah, midgets... (more)
>
>User Rating: 3.1/10 (167 votes)
>
>Complete credited cast:
>Billy Curtis .... The Hero (Buck Lawson)
>Yvonne Moray .... The Girl (Nancy Preston)
>'Little Billy' Rhodes .... The Villain (Bat Haines) (as Little Billy)
>Billy Platt .... The Rich Uncle (Jim 'Tex' Preston) (as Bill Platt)
>John T. Bambury .... The Ranch Owner (Pop Lawson) (as John Bambury)
>Joseph Herbst .... The Sheriff
>Charles Becker .... The Cook (Otto)
>Nita Krebs .... The Vampire (Nita, the dance hall girl)
>George Ministeri .... The Blacksmith (Armstrong)
>Karl 'Karchy' Kosiczky .... The Barber (Sammy) (as Karl Casitzky)
>Fern Formica .... Diamond Dolly (as Johnnie Fern)
>William H. O'Docharty .... The Old Soak (as W.H. O'Docharty)
> (more)
>
>
>
>Runtime: 62 min
>Country: USA
>Language: English
>Color: Black and White
>Sound Mix: Mono
>
>Trivia: Following this film's release, it was reported that Jed Buell
>planned to use the same cast in a film version of the story of Paul
>Bunyan (with a large gentleman playing Bunyan). It is assumed this
>idea never got past the pre-production phase. (more)
> TERROR OF TINY...
>
>
>
>
>User Comments:
>
>Heather
>Vancouver, Canada
>
>
>Date: 7 August 2003
>Summary: Ah, midgets...
>
>Ok, so when I voted I gave it a low score, but that was cause Terror
>of Tiny Town has very little cinematic merit. But put all that aside
>and wind your sense of humour down a couple of notches and this movie
>is a "rootin, tootin, shootin" good time. I mean come on! They walk
>UNDER the saloon door! They ride ponies! It takes two midgets to play
>the bass! The bartender can't seem to chug his beer without outbursts
>of laughter! Plus- midgets fighting- funny! Add to that the fact that
>not a single one of the midgets can act and you've got 63 minutes of
>fun! Ok, so I realize that this movie is so politically incorrect that
>"little people" everywhere are either laughing themselves to death or
>up in arms. But that shouldn't stop us from enjoying an entirely
>midget western with multiple ear shattering musical numbers and the
>barest traces of a plot. But like I said before- midgets-Funny!
>Check for other user comments.
>
>I have seen this movie and would like to comment on it
>
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I am an associate dentist in a Canadian city of pop. ~ 1 million. The
"small town" is about 2 hours away and has a pop. of 5,000 or so.


"JWN DDS" <> wrote in message
newsdN3d.462498$M95.230368@pd7tw1no...

> So I've been an associate dentist since I graduated. Time has come to
> think about buying my own practice. I'm torn between the city and small
> town.
>
> Advantages to the city are: I am more anonymous (I can have a nice
> car/house and noone cares), all the perks to city-life (movie theaters
> with stadium seating, nice restaurants, etc.), etc.
>
> Disadvantages to the city are: Lower income as a dentist (higher
> competition than rural and more specialists to do high-end work), raising
> of kids in gang/drug/etc-infested schools (don't get me wrong small towns
> have their share of alcohol and drugs).
>
> Advantages to small town: Increased salary as a dentist, "peaceful" life,
> snowmobiling/atvs/fishing/etc., etc.
>
> Disadvantages to small town: Apart from grocery or hardware shopping trips
> to city are required, less anonymous (I can have a nice truck but don't be
> pulling up to work in a Benz...)
>
> Basically this is an informal poll of where you would go in my situation
> and why. I'd be interested to hear any and all responses/advice.
>
> Thanks.
>

"JWN DDS" <> wrote in message
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> I am an associate dentist in a Canadian city of pop. ~ 1 million. The
> "small town" is about 2 hours away and has a pop. of 5,000 or so.

After reading your initial post, and mulling it and the other responses
all morning, I am still not sure if you are looking to make a good business
decision or a good lifestyle decision. Which comes first?

Business questions: Does that pop. 5000 town already have a dentist?
Will a pop. of 5000 support (another)
dentist?
Age of population?
Income of population?
Growth of population? (any new development,
industry?)
Is local industry (job base) at risk?

Lifestyle Questions: Will your family be happy in a small town after
knowing the big city?
These could go on forever:


Vaughn